Sequestration: How it will hurt political leaders' hometowns

By Mimi Schiffman and Ryan Teague Beckwith, Digital First Media

Posted:
02/28/2013 02:59:30 PM MST

Updated:
03/01/2013 09:51:16 AM MST

FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2012 photo, President Barack Obama, accompanied by House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, speaks to reporters in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington as he hosted a meeting of the bipartisan, bicameral leadership of Congress to discuss the deficit and economy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) (Carolyn Kaster)

Sequestration: How it will hurt political leaders' hometowns

All politics is local, as the old saying goes. So when the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration kick in Friday, it won't be just another federal fight between Congress and the White House, it will also hit the hometowns of some of the key players in the showdown. President Barack ObamaChicago, Ill.Dr. Steve Goldstein stands in a room at the University of Chicago's new Comer Children's Hospital during a media preview in 2005. (AP)The University of Chicago will lose ...